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Voigtländer 12mm f/5.6 ASPH
2000-today, filter adapter needed for 77mm filters, 173g.
It's a screw-mount lens, so be sure to get a screw-mount adapter for use on M cameras. It comes with a dedicated 12mm finder.
It comes in black as shown or silver.
It's sharp, and has plenty of falloff (darker corners) as expected. I'm a wide-angle junkie, and 12mm is too wide, even for me. It is not rangefinder coupled as all Leica brand lenses. No big deal, just guess. Its depth-of-field is just about unlimited.
TTL metering works great on all M cameras.
Achtung: Although wonderful on film, this lens sucks on the M9 because its rear nodal point is too close for the sensor. The left and right sides take on weird color shifts. For the M9, get the LEICA 16-18-21mm zoom instead.
New: bayonet mount version.
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Voigtländer 15mm f/4.5 M II ASPH
2009-today, 52mm filters, 155g.
An excellent lens in every way. TTL metering works great on all M cameras.
Achtung: Although wonderful on film, this lens sucks on the M9 because its rear nodal point is too close for the sensor. The left and right sides take on weird color shifts. For the M9, get the LEICA 16-18-21mm zoom instead.
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Voigtländer 15mm f/4.5 ASPH
1999-today, no filters, 115g.
Same as the lens above, except that it's screw-thread, and has no rangefinder coupling or filter thread. Be sure to get an adapter to use it on M cameras.
TTL metering works great on all M cameras.
Achtung: Although wonderful on film, this lens sucks on the M9 because its rear nodal point is too close for the sensor. The left and right sides take on weird color shifts. For the M9, get the LEICA 16-18-21mm zoom instead.
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Voigtländer 21mm f/4
2009-today, 39mm filters, 132g.
The tiniest ultrawide ever for Leica. A great performer that fulfills Oskar Barnack's vision even better than Leica's own lenses today.
Achtung: Although wonderful on film, this lens is not for the M9 because its rear nodal point is too close for the sensor. The left and right sides take on weird color shifts. For the M9, get the LEICA 21mm f/2.8 ASPH instead.
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NEW: Voigtländer 35mm f/1.4
2008-, 43mm filters, 198g.
Small, light, well-built and ergonomically excellent, but with visible barrel distortion and sharpness far inferior to anything else from LEICA, even 50 years ago.
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